John Milton Quotes, Apology Quotes, Silence Quotes

The best apology against false accusers is silence.

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Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

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The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

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Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

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Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

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What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

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Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

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Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.

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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

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Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

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Our reason is our law.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

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Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

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In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

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But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.

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